Creatures Print

A lively gathering of creatures in a beautiful print.

2000
Edition 9 of 35
Stencil
18 x 25"

Artist - Annie Kilabuk

Print maker - Enookie Akulukjuk

Annie Kilabuk was born in 1932 in Qimmisuuq camp, Baffin Island. Her mother was Natanine from Kinngait (Cape Dorset). Annie was thirty-six when she settled in Panniqtuuq as one of the earliest permanent residents from among a group of elders who had spent their formative years in nomadic camps. 

In 1968, after settling in Panniqtuuq, Annie began drawing on paper, using coloured pencil, charcoal and felt-tipped pen. A self-taught artist, Annie noted that her approach to drawing was more like a process of storytelling. All of Annie’s works on paper depict different aspects of Inuit life, lore, tradition and imagination. 

Annie’s works have been used for prints that have been included in the annual Pangnirtung Print Collection and twenty-five of her drawings have been used for tapestries produced by the weavers who work in the Pangnirtung Tapestry Studio. 

Enookie Akulukjuk, master printmaker and annual participant in the Pangnirtung Community Print Collection since 1985, passed away in hospital in Ottawa in mid-December 2006, after a long battle with heart disease. Enookie was born in 1943 in Illunganjuit (Bon Accord), a small community that no longer exists, on Baffin Island. The son of Malaya Akulukjuk, one of Pangnirtung’s most famous artists, he resided in Pangnirtung since 1964. Enookie was among the first printmakers to take up the art after it was introduced in Pangnirtung in the early 1970s. His early printmaking experiences were in the medium of silkscreen. Over the years he also produced a number of beautiful etchings, mastering this technique that utilizes copper and zinc plates. Ultimately, Enookie became a specialist in stencil printing, or pochoir, a technique that he enjoyed for its easy handling and simplicity of design. His stencil prints are characterized by a high level of technical virtuosity, demonstrating smooth, even brush work, softly blended colours, and a level of mastery that he achieved through over thirty years of printmaking experience.